When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal
Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?
Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence.
The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.
It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of warthat can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on.
A conqueror is always a lover of peace.
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war.
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.
War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.
Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.
The central defect of evil is not sin but the refusal to acknowledge sin.
When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.
Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.
I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.
An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.
Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.